Bucket List Addition

A "bugnado" -- a vortex formed from flying insects -- was captured in the photo below. The photographer saw the large collection of bugs in southwestern Iowa in the early evening hours of July 4. He shot video and got some camera shots of the whirling bugs over a corn field. Entomologists explain that the bugs are probably either mayflies or midges, insects that spend their early lives swimming around in ponds or pools of standing water. When they grow up, the emerge from the water, grow wings and take off. But at that point, their hours are limited and they need to find a mate quickly before they die.


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